Embedded / Electrical Engineer

About Human ArchiveHuman Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.What you'll work onWe're hiring an electrical engineer to lead PCB and power systems for our wearable capture hardware. Dense, high-speed, mixed-signal work in tight wearable form factors.Compute module integrationCustom carrier boards for ARM compute modulesBreakout and routing of high-speed interfaces from compact modules to custom peripheralsBring-up coordination with firmwareHigh-speed PCB designEnd-to-end ownership of rigid-flex and high-density boardsHigh-bandwidth interfaces (MIPI CSI-2, SerDes, USB 3.x, PCIe, UFS)EMI, crosstalk, and impedance control in space-constrained designsPower architecture and battery systemsPower Delivery Networks for double-digit-watt wearable loadsBattery management for field-swappable cell architecturesFuel gauging and runtime estimationTransient load behavior and power sequencingSensor and peripheral integrationMulti-camera array electrical integrationInertial, magnetic, acoustic, and environmental sensor wiringLow-noise analog rails and shared precision clock distributionBring-up, debugging, and validationBoard bring-up alongside firmwareSignal integrity, power integrity, and timing diagnosisEMC pre-scans and compliance supportRequired technical experienceStrong PCB design in Altium, Cadence Allegro, or KiCadHigh-speed digital design: differential pair routing, impedance control, stack-upSI/PI simulation and validationCompute module / SoM carrier board experienceLab debugging instincts (scope, logic analyzer, network analyzer)Strong plusMulti-camera array design (3+ concurrent cameras)High-speed SerDes routingARM SoC carrier work (Qualcomm, NXP, or similar)Wearable / body-worn product backgroundHot-swap power designFCC / CE / RoHS compliance and DFM handoff experienceAbout this role You own electrical design end-to-end — schematic through bring-up through production-ready DFM. The interface stack is broad, the form factor is tight, and the boards you design end up on real users. Mistakes show up in the field within weeks. You'll iterate fast.